User:Jukeboksi/Kitchenblog

14.12.2003

I'm not actually making this now but I often do and it's such a exellent sidekick to many salads and stuff that I just gotta share this with you.

Cool Spanish tortilla with Balsamic vinegar

Class: Side dish (yummy with salads)
Preparation: varies much. 10 minutes with precooked potato-onion mix, 30 minutes with raw ingredients + 30 minutes for cooling the dish for serving (depending on weather of course)
Skill requirements: Low (if you have the right equipment handy)
Hardware: Stove (any kind), Frying pan or two or more if you want to streamline production of catering quantities, Something for cooking potatoes, like what's it called. and most necessarily a plate big enough to cover the frying pan (or just the second frying pan mentioned before)
Clean up: 4 minutes
Groups: Halal, Kosher, Lacto-ovo vegetarian, prepare-store-serve
Performance: excellent for the buck, hunger removal very effective, very suitable for catering type of situation as well as a solo kitchen where this treat will stay yummy and healthy in your fridge for a long time.

Here goes...

Potatoes. Cook 'em
Onions. Gently heat with plenty of oil
- Or use a frozen bag of potato-onion mix if in a hurry
Slightly cooked (fullly cooking isn't really required, you should leave them a little hard) potatoes sliced go in the pan with the onions
Make it hot, try not to squash the potato slices
Add salt. Make it plenty since much of it will be absorbed into the eggs.
Throw in free-ranging eggs. Break the egg shell into two pieces by hitting on a solid, sharp corner and pry with your hands so that you can pour the contents so that you use the sharp edges of the shell to pierce the yolk (yellow thingy). Repeat untill the potato-onion mixture is almost covered with the eggs.
Drop the heat a little and cover the frying pan with something such as the plate, though you should remember that the plate becomes incredibly hot and due to the quick release of heat from porcelain you'll burn your fingers in the next step. Wear protective clothing.
Think carefully how you will accomplish the next step taking into consideration your joints and and muscles in your hands and around your shoulders. Meditate and when you've got a working theory, proceed.
Once the surface of the mixture is solid in such a way that it doesn't stick to things much you take the plate place it over the pan. Holding the pan and the plate together with two hands (remember to wear protective clothing) you flip the whole thing over. Slide the tortilla back to the pan and fry gently. When doing these things in an assembly line fashion you naturally use the other hot pan instead of a plate thus working two stowes in a serial manner.
Once it's slightly brown and slightly crispy or whatever you prefer take it to a cool place to cool down before serving. Please don't stick straight into the fridge cause that will consume a hell of a lot of energy.
Slice into sectors for serving and please do serve a bottle of balsamic vinegar with it so that everyone can moisten it with vinegar to taste.

5.12.2003

I just had breakfast:

Brie-Apple hot sandwich

Class: Hot sandwich
Preparation: 2 minutes
Skill requirements: Low
Hardware: Heating (conduction or radiation)
Clean up: 1 minute
Cost: low/medium
Groups: Halal, Kosher, Vegetarian
Performance: yummy

Bread, any bread should do, though i used rye
Toast the bread, to make it a little cruchy
Butter it
Chop half of a small apple into slices of any size
Slice some onions as fine as possible
Apples go to the bottom, put the onion slices atop the apples
Plenty of Brie cheese to top it off. I used danish organic low fat version
And to keep you healthy and vamipire free, you really should try trowing in some crushed or chopped garlic glowes.
Also a pinch of white pepper isn't such a bad idea

Microwaveving will do just great, but you can ofcourse use whatever heating equipment you like
Keep in mind that Brie will turn quite liquid quite quickly, so keep an aye on things
If any brie gets to touch the plate, you should know it's quite sticky, so wash up soon

Enjoy.